MANIFESTO — #JeSuisAndreas By Andreas Weber Our present time is marked by crises and conflicts to a degree hitherto unknown. All areas are affected: society, economics, politics, religion and lastly the freedom and self-determination of the individual. Modern times are not good times. Many questions arise and seem to be unresolved. This faces us with a dilemma. We rely on innovation to make progress. But: the innovative is considered as “the modern” – but is not the same thing as “the new”. As the innovative is not the same as the new that we need to make progress, how does the new come into the world? How do we analyse and evaluate whether we are making progress or going backward? Is our thinking and action still directed towards meaningfulness at all? Are our value systems still fit for purpose? I am therefore primarily interested in this question: Does present day man whose existence is being eaten away by the new, whose life is always concerned with awakening, zeitgeist, progress, renewal still have significance? Or has the understanding of people and their culture as it was so decisive for the avant-gardists of the early 20th century collapsed, in other words fallen in on itself? What do “modern people” of the present time actually feel? What guides them in their work? #JeSuisAndreas — we must take a position for ourselves to share specific thoughts and ideas with us all. It is not the common goal to simply decry individual facts unilaterally and in a pointless dispute but to produce the cultural and communicative context to break down barriers and create common understanding. We must establish points of reference that enable us to resolve the dilemma of the present time. For this it is important to enable us to take stock guided by meaningfulness in order to evaluate whether striving for the new as we knew it exists and is still valid. Or, if it no longer exists, can be revived! This can be done neither by politics, religion, ideology or economics. But only through art in its purest form! —Picasso. We miss you!

1. #JeSuisAndreas

2. —Picasso. We miss you!

3. Our present time is marked by crises and conflicts
to a degree hitherto unknown.
All areas are affected: society, economics, politics,
religion and lastly the freedom and self-
determination of the individual.

4. Modern
times
are not good
times (anymore).

5. Many questions arise and seem to be unresolved.
This faces us with a dilemma.
We rely on innovation to make progress.
But: The innovative is considered as ”the modern“ — but
is not the same thing as ”the new”“.
As the innovative is not the same as the new
that we need to make progress,
how does the new come into the world?

6. How does we analyse and evaluate
whether we are making progress or
going backward?

7. Is our thinking and action still directed
(at all) towards
Meaningfulness?

8. Are our
value systems
still fit for
purpose?

9. #JeSuisAndreas

10. I am therefore primarily interested in this question:
Does present day man whose existence
is being eaten away by the new, whose life is always
concerned with awakening, zeitgeist, progress, renewal
still have significance?
Or has the understanding of people and their culture as
it was so decisive for the avant-gardists of the early 20th
century collapsed, in other words fallen in on itself?

11. What do
”modern people“
of the present time
actually feel?

12. What guides them
in their work?

13. #JeSuisAndreas

14. We must take a position for
ourselves to share specific
thoughts and ideas with us all.

15. It is not the common goal to simply decry individual
facts unilaterally and in a pointless dispute
but to produce the cultural and
communicative context
to break down barriers and create
common understanding.

16. We
must establish points of
reference
.

17. We must establish points of reference, that enable us
to resolve the Dilemma of Present Time.
For this it is important to enable us to take stock guide by
meaningfulness in order to evaluate
whether striving for the new as we know it exists
and is still valid. Or, if it no longer exists,
can be revived!

18. We must establish points of reference.
This can be done neither by politics,
religion, ideology or economics.
But only through art in the purest form!

19. —Picasso. We miss you!

20. #JeSuisAndreas
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